BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 23, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
Roger Hernández, Chair
AB 2148 (Mullin) - As Amended: April 10, 2014
SUBJECT : Workforce development: annual workforce metrics
dashboard.
SUMMARY : Requires the California Workforce Investment Board
(CWIB) to, among other duties, assist the Governor in the
development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard to measure
investment in workforce development. Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires the CWIB to develop an annual workforce metrics
dashboard that measures the state's human capital investments
in workforce development to understand the collective impact
of these investments on the labor market and shall be produced
using existing available data and resources currently
collected and accessible to state agencies.
2)Provides that the CWIB shall convene workforce program
partners to develop a standardized set of inputs and outputs
for the workforce metrics dashboard and outlines the workforce
metrics dashboard shall do all of the following:
a) Provide a status report on credential attainment,
training completion, degree attainment and wage gain
outcomes of workforce education and training programs. The
CWIB shall publish and distribute the final report.
b) Provide demographic breakdowns to include race,
ethnicity, age, gender, veteran status, wage and credential
degree outcomes and information on workforce outcomes in
different industry sectors, to the extent possible.
c) Measure, at a minimum and to the extent feasible within
existing resources, the performance specified workforce
programs.
3)Authorizes the State Department of Education (CDE) to collect
and keep the information confidential for tracking purposes
social security numbers of adults participating in adult
education programs so that accurate participation in those
programs can be represented in the metrics dashboard.
4)Specifies that the participating workforce programs shall
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provide participant data in a standardized format to the Labor
Market Information Division (LMID) of the Employment
Development Department (EDD).
5)Requires LMID of the EDD to aggregate the data provided by the
participating workforce programs and report the data to the
CWIB organized by demographics, earnings and industry of
employment to assist the CWIB in the production of the annual
workforce metrics dashboard.
EXISTING FEDERAL LAW enacts federal Workforce Investment Act
(WIA) of 1998 which provides for workforce investment
activities, including activities in which states may participate
and also contains various programs for job and employment
investment, including work incentive programs, as specified.
EXISTING STATE LAW :
1)Establishes by Executive Order, in response to the mandate of
the federal WIA the CWIB which assists the Governor in setting
and guiding policy in the area of workforce development and
training. Members of the CWIB are appointed by the Governor
and represent the many facets of workforce development -
business, labor, public education, higher education, economic
development, youth activities, employment and training, as
well as the Legislature.
2)States the CWIB is also responsible for assisting the Governor
in the alignment of the education and workforce investment
systems to the needs of the state's current and future
workforce and the promotion of the development of a
well-educated and highly skilled 21st century economy and
workforce.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Currently there is no cross-system data
collaboration in place to measure and assess the effectiveness
of workforce investment and career technical education programs
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aimed at achieving statewide workforce development policy goals,
annually.
California has numerous state and local entities providing
academic and vocational education, workforce training,
school-to-career transition programs, and economic development
activities. In recent years there has been increasing emphasis
at both the federal and state level on integrating all these
programs to the extent possible, encouraging strategic planning
and establishing methods to measure performance, enhance
accountability, improve student outcomes and to focus education
and training on high demand industries to provide more career
opportunities.
The author seeks with this bill to provide the parameters a
cross-system workforce metrics dashboard using existing data
collected by workforce programs that reports on credential and
degree attainment, wage gain outcomes of the workforce education
and training programs and the outcomes by demographic
categories. The purpose is to support current efforts by these
programs to increase enrollments in education and training that
has a documented payoff for individuals and for regional
economies.
The author states the important missing link is the availability
of this data providing evidence of how effective the programs
are at moving students into high quality education and training,
what kinds of wage outcomes individuals across the various
programs achieve and how these efforts change over time. The
author believes the annual snapshot would provide the Governor,
Legislature and other stakeholders involved with necessary data
to assist them in making informed investment decisions.
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT :
A broad group of business and labor argue in support of this
bill which creates a cross-system metric dashboard on workforce
and career technical education investments in California. They
also strongly support the provision that authorizes the
California Department of Education (CDE) to confidentially
collect social security numbers for adults participating in
adult education programs since there is currently no tracking of
the impact workforce investments or training have on the labor
market, such as degree attainment and wage outcomes. Lastly,
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they collectively argue, California is currently implementing a
new adult education strategy with the goal of better alignment
between adult education programs offered by CDE and community
colleges. While community colleges currently collect social
security numbers so they can measure the impact of their
programs on subsequent employment and wages, currently CDE does
not. This provision will help to better align local programs,
measure program effectiveness, and improve on program design and
delivery.
RELATED PRIOR LEGISLATION :
SB 118 (Lieu) Chapter 562, Statutes of 2013 provides that the
CWIB is also responsible for assisting the Governor in the
alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to
the needs of the 21st century workforce and the promotion of the
development of a well-educated and highly skilled 21st century
economy and workforce. SB 118 also requires the CWIB to assist
the Governor in targeting resources to specified industry
clusters that provide economic security and leverage state and
federal funds to ensure that resources are invested in
activities that meet the needs of specified industry sectors and
advance the education and employment of students and workers so
they can meet the specified needs of the state, its regional
economies, and leading industry sectors, among other things.
SB 293 (Ducheny) Chapter 630, Statutes of 2006 restructures and
revises provisions related to the state administration of and
education services under the federal WIA by the CWIB.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Edge Coalition
California Budget Project
California Hospital Association
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO
California Manufacturing and Technology Association
California Workforce Association
Career Ladders Project for the California Community Colleges
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
National Council of La Raza
PolicyLink
State Building and Construction Trades of California
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Veterans Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Lorie Alvarez / L. & E. / (916)
319-2091